"Sheer Technological Ineptitude" (Thursday, April 10, 2008)
Turns out that who caused his Web site to crash in 2006 can be added to the long list of things Joe Lieberman is clueless about
What's Your Meez? (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
An idea from the world of cooking that works just as well in the world of programming
Holy Crap (Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
Sun buys MySQL for $800 million
Does Somebody From Sony Read This Blog? (Thursday, January 10, 2008)
Sony makes a 180, announces full catalog to be available DRM free via Amazon within a month
It's Like They Are Trying to Sell LESS Music (Monday, January 7, 2008)
Sony BMG says sure, you can have DRM-free downloads. But you better be willing to WORK for them, buster!
Console War! It’s Like Regular War, Only With More Plastic (Wednesday, November 28, 2007)
Ben Croshaw takes a funny look at the state of the console gaming world
Why I Built A New Computer (Monday, October 22, 2007)
One reason, anyway
This Has Been Another Installment of "You Should Have Listened To Me The First Time I Told You" (Thursday, September 27, 2007)
Seriously!
What Did You Expect, Exactly? (Monday, September 3, 2007)
Don't give out your passwords, people.
MyPHPDocs: A Review (Tuesday, August 28, 2007)
Good feedback!
Introducing MyPHPDocs.com (Thursday, August 9, 2007)
Create and share your own PHP docs, customized to your needs
Newegg.com Ripoff Alert (Tuesday, July 24, 2007)
Now how much would you pay?
Has the Perfect Free PHP IDE Arrived? (Wednesday, July 4, 2007)
Could be
Ian Murdock Joins Sun (Monday, March 19, 2007)
Debian founder hired to coordinate Sun's OS strategy
Dear Search Engines (Monday, March 12, 2007)
Would it kill you to assign accesskeys to your search results? Years of computer use have left me with a...
At Microsoft, We Listen To Our Customers! Eventually (Thursday, February 22, 2007)
Though it does take a while, mind
Add Instant Translation Into Firefox (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)
It's easy, and free
Be Careful What You Promise (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)
A cautionary tale
Important: TYPO3 Security Hole, and How To Close It (Wednesday, December 20, 2006)
Title says it all
ADOdb Transaction Mystery: Solved (Friday, October 20, 2006)
A reader finds the answer
Internet Explorer 7 Released (Thursday, October 19, 2006)
For reals, yo
An ADOdb Question (Tuesday, September 5, 2006)
... and it SHOULD be an easy one
Windows Vista Pricing Announced (Tuesday, September 5, 2006)
Good news! Well, news, anyway
Mmm, That's Good Kool-Aid (Wednesday, August 16, 2006)
Now in new Strawberry Steve flavor!
It Was Probably Only a Matter of Time (Tuesday, August 15, 2006)
Check it out: there is now a Segway SUV. How I wish I was kidding....
Windows Live Writer (Tuesday, August 15, 2006)
A nice free tool for posting to your blog
Strange Doings in Connecticut (Tuesday, August 8, 2006)
Or just idiocy in motion?
The Only Interesting Thing Apple Announced Today (Monday, August 7, 2006)
... isn't any of the things the bloggers were drooling over
No Modes (Tuesday, July 11, 2006)
One small step for Microsoft Office, one giant leap for usability
Why Your New Kubuntu Install Won't Play Music (Tuesday, June 13, 2006)
You're not stupid after all! It's a bug
KDE Kwestion (Thursday, June 8, 2006)
Kan kyou ktell kme kwhy keverything kin KDE-land kstarts kwith K?
The Worst Thing About PHP (Tuesday, May 30, 2006)
... is the documentation. It's not that it's badly written; it's reasonably clear in that sense. Rather, the problem...
Welcome to Boot Camp (Wednesday, April 5, 2006)
Now drop and give me 20, maggot
Reconsidering Python (Monday, April 3, 2006)
A second look at a powerful language
Google Talk Opens Up (Thursday, February 2, 2006)
GTalk: it's not just for Googlers anymore
First Impressions (Thursday, January 12, 2006)
You never get a second chance, you know
Evil (Sunday, January 1, 2006)
Google inches closer
World of Warcraft == Spyware (Tuesday, December 13, 2005)
Turns out, the answer is yes
Cloud (Friday, December 2, 2005)
A fun free game in the spirit of Katamari Damacy. What's not to like?
The Gates and Ozzie Memos (Wednesday, November 9, 2005)
Notes on Microsoft's change in course
The WinFX Look (Tuesday, November 8, 2005)
It's shiny!
Microsoft Live: Old Wine, New Bottle? (Tuesday, November 1, 2005)
The Next Big Thing from Microsoft may be neither next nor big. At least it's a thing
What Broke StyleCatcher (And How To Fix It) (Friday, October 14, 2005)
Mysteries of the universe, revealed
Google to Announce StarOffice Project Tomorrow? (Monday, October 3, 2005)
Apparently so
StyleCatcher Fixed! (Saturday, October 1, 2005)
But not by Six Apart
So Long, PalmOS (Sunday, September 25, 2005)
The seventh seal opens
Opera Drops the Price Tag (Tuesday, September 20, 2005)
... and the ads too. Neat!
Yet More Desktop Thingamabobs (Tuesday, September 13, 2005)
Because we don't have enough of these systems already
Movable Type StyleCatcher: Broken Broken Broken (Monday, September 12, 2005)
Seriously, it's broken
Google IM is Here (Tuesday, August 23, 2005)
... and it is indeed built on Jabber
Printing in Linux: Still Waaaay Harder Than It Has To Be (Monday, August 22, 2005)
Will the subject that has defeated Open Source Legends defeat Our Favorite Geek?
Tapwave Is No More (Friday, July 29, 2005)
So much for the Zodiac
Serious Security Issue in Greasemonkey (Tuesday, July 19, 2005)
All Greasemonkey users: Read immediately!
Filzip 3.03 Out (Monday, July 11, 2005)
New release of excellent free Windows archiver available
Yahoo Search: Better Than Google (Thursday, June 16, 2005)
It happened to me today: Yahoo beat the #@!& out of Google
Well, I Called That One (Sunday, May 29, 2005)
The Great Drive to End Windows 2000 Usage begins
How Soon We Forget (Thursday, May 12, 2005)
Back... to the future!!!
Google Web Accelerator == Pitiless Enforcer of Web Design Patterns (Monday, May 9, 2005)
GWA is about to break a whoooole lotta Web apps. Is yours one of them?
Yahoo's APIs (Wednesday, April 27, 2005)
... are many, and cool
The Irrelevancy of Treo (Thursday, April 21, 2005)
... is established by Russ Beattie
Archos Does It Again: PMA400 (Tuesday, April 19, 2005)
Another lust-worthy device. Dammit! Must... control... spending...
Linux For Real People: Ubuntu (Sunday, April 10, 2005)
Linux, getting closer to being for the rest of us
People Are God Damned Idiots (Wednesday, March 30, 2005)
Like we needed more proof of THAT
My New Phone (Friday, February 18, 2005)
... is pretty f#@!ing cool
Microsoft: IE 7 is Coming! And If You're Not Running XP It Will Only Cost You $100 (Tuesday, February 15, 2005)
Good news, kind of
Google Launches Map Service (Tuesday, February 8, 2005)
And its interface is dead cool
Fixing PalmOne's Product Line (Monday, February 7, 2005)
Let's look at one way to improve PalmOne's sales story
PalmOne, We Hardly Knew Ye (Monday, February 7, 2005)
A once-great company stumbling towards irrelevance
Arrr! Puzzle Pirates Hits the Big Time (Wednesday, February 2, 2005)
Indie game to hit the big time
The End of Sports Games (Tuesday, January 25, 2005)
Legal maneuvering may have launched the beginning of the end
How Wikipedia Works (Sunday, January 23, 2005)
Learning from the life of one entry
Google Acts To Kill Comment Spam (Tuesday, January 18, 2005)
Introducing rel="nofollow"
Podcasting, MixCast Live (Friday, January 7, 2005)
Interesting infant tech trend
Call For Help: Generating Charts and Graphs in PHP (Thursday, December 30, 2004)
Single developer seeks robust, full featured PHP graphing library for candlelit dinners, walks along beach. No fatties
Administering MySQL with Navicat (Monday, December 27, 2004)
Finally, a really good GUI for MySQL
Dealing with Comment Spam (Thursday, December 23, 2004)
Some solutions for Movable Type and Apache users
Somebody Buy Microsoft A Spell Checker (Wednesday, December 1, 2004)
Seen on the Windows 2003 Server IIS 6.0 management tool: Ooooops....
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch (Wednesday, December 1, 2004)
More for your money
The Clio Is Back!!! (Thursday, November 18, 2004)
Cult classic makes a comeback
My Yahoo! Search (Thursday, November 11, 2004)
It keeps getting better
Treo 650 Announced (Monday, October 25, 2004)
Dammit, stop putting out these gadgets! I should save the money
MSDN Library FINALLY Gets Organized (Friday, October 15, 2004)
And it's actually usable now
Yeah, It WORKS, But... (Monday, October 4, 2004)
Sometimes just working isn't enough
Finally, A REAL Laptop (Wednesday, August 18, 2004)
No more wussy ultraportables for me
Laptop Showdown Update (Tuesday, August 17, 2004)
More thoughts on the laptop issue
Showdown at the Laptop Corral (Monday, August 16, 2004)
It's like a shootout, except with computers and money instead of bullets
TimeTrax: Record MP3s from XM Radio (Friday, August 13, 2004)
... is it legal? nah. But why let little things like that get in the way
Winners Of MT 3.0 Plugin Contest Announced (Friday, July 23, 2004)
Extending MT3
IE Team Blog Launches (Thursday, July 22, 2004)
They actually exist! Who knew?
Introducing the Pocket TiVO (Friday, July 16, 2004)
Technology marches on
A PDA For the Blind (Wednesday, June 30, 2004)
A cool idea made real
The Slow Death of the Windows API (Wednesday, June 16, 2004)
Joel Spolsky takes a look under the covers of MS's developer strategy, and doesn't like what he finds
Sony Withdrawing Clie PDA Line (Tuesday, June 1, 2004)
Say bye-bye to some of the best PalmOS PDAs
Geek Lust Object (Friday, May 28, 2004)
Alas, my eyes are bigger than my credit limit
Six Apart Responds to the MT3 Kerfluffle (Saturday, May 15, 2004)
... and they're getting closer, but they haven't quite nailed it yet
Movable Type 3 Is Here -- Get Your Wallet Out (Thursday, May 13, 2004)
New version, new licensing
Google Sells Out: The Saga Continues (Wednesday, May 12, 2004)
Now it's banner ads, with graphics
Get VB.NET 2003 Standard Free (Thursday, May 6, 2004)
Just watch some videos from Redmond and you're in
PalmOne Releases Zire 31, 72 (Wednesday, April 28, 2004)
PalmOne refreshes their low end
Crane Your Neck (Friday, April 23, 2004)
... with the TrackIR controller
Let Microsoft Foot the Bill for Securing Your PC (Wednesday, April 21, 2004)
Get every Windows security patch ever released free on CD. Not bad
Bluetooth: (Finally) Ready for Prime Time? (Thursday, April 15, 2004)
Could be
GMail: What's Accessibility Again? (Monday, April 12, 2004)
Don't ask Google
AOL Opens IMAP Mail Access Today (Monday, April 5, 2004)
AOL opens up
I Wish I Had Thought Of This (Thursday, March 25, 2004)
Old school gaming meets IM
Tycho's Take on Battlefield: Vietnam (Wednesday, March 17, 2004)
A first look at the long awaited BF1942 follow-up
You Can Now Subscribe to Comments. Let the Rejoicing Commence (Monday, March 8, 2004)
Look, new toy!
Amazon.com Introduces RSS (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)
Another great use of great tech
LucasArts Pulls the Plug on S&M (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)
Sam and Max, that is
Rolling Your Own Scenarios in "President Forever" (Monday, March 1, 2004)
A great game gets even better
Call for Help: SSH Port Forwarding (Monday, February 23, 2004)
Taking the LazyWeb approach
Kaleidescape: For the Movie Geek Who Has It All (Sunday, February 8, 2004)
If you've got the cash, you can have the future today
Best Buy Nixing PDAs? (Monday, February 2, 2004)
Another sign of the slow demise of the standalone PDA
Forgotten Hope (Sunday, January 25, 2004)
Making a great game (Battlefield 1942) even better
Red Hat, CPAN, and Intense, Throbbing Pain (Thursday, January 22, 2004)
I suffer so you don't have to
End of an Era (Tuesday, January 13, 2004)
Kodak abandons film
Movable Type 2.65 Released (Monday, December 22, 2003)
Time to upgrade
FeedDemon 1.0 Released (Friday, December 19, 2003)
A powerful new player in the RSS aggregator market
What's Number Portability Costing You? (Wednesday, December 10, 2003)
Cellphone providers prove once again that they are spawns of Satan. Well, most of them, anyway.
Synaptic Makes Apt A Snap (Monday, November 10, 2003)
I'm still hacking away on Red Hat 9 as a desktop OS for my home PC, even though Red Hat's...
I Suppose This Is "Innovation(tm)" (Monday, November 10, 2003)
Microsoft, bringing you yesterday's ideas today
Longhorn To Open the Era of "Replace and Defend"? (Saturday, November 1, 2003)
Is Longhorn gonna blow our nice standards-based world away?
PDFCreator Makes the List (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)
Welcome to the club
Anyone Got a Grand I Can Borrow? (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)
i want it i want it i want it
MT-Blacklist 1.5 out (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)
Jay Allen strikes again
The Big List O' Quality Software (Sunday, October 26, 2003)
Some general recommendations for things you should check out
More Good Buzz For Tapwave (Friday, October 24, 2003)
I gotta see one of these for myself
Great Timing, Dipstick (Wednesday, October 22, 2003)
Aaaaaaaagh
More Important Things Than Anti-Aliased Text (Wednesday, October 22, 2003)
Microsoft strikes again
It's the Little Things (Tuesday, October 21, 2003)
Putting on the Red Hat
Buzz for the Tapwave Zodiac (Tuesday, October 21, 2003)
Ooh, new toys
Feedback on iTunes (Sunday, October 19, 2003)
People take this 'music' stuff seriously. Who knew?
First Impressions of iTunes for Windows (Thursday, October 16, 2003)
... are mixed
Great, Now Nowhere Is Safe (Thursday, October 16, 2003)
Dean Kamen strikes again
MT-Blacklist: Let The Comment Spam Smackdown Commence (Tuesday, October 14, 2003)
Jay Allen saves the world
Treo 600 Is (Finally) Shipping (Thursday, October 9, 2003)
Step right up
A Cool Project (Tuesday, October 7, 2003)
Oscar unveils his cabinet-in-progress
It's About )(@*#()*& Time (Monday, September 29, 2003)
Finally, a free Perl IDE
Ultimate Tech Lust Object (Wednesday, September 24, 2003)
If I had a million dollars...
Sony Geeks Out (Tuesday, September 23, 2003)
More pricey toys for the easily amused
Hacking the XM-PCR (Thursday, September 11, 2003)
When geeks attack
Reconsidering FeedDemon (Friday, September 5, 2003)
A second look at BradSoft's aggregator
XM-PCR Price Drop (Thursday, September 4, 2003)
Twenty less dead presidents
Vote on New Name for Pie/Echo/Atom Is In Progress (Wednesday, September 3, 2003)
Here we go again
Steal This Game (Monday, September 1, 2003)
A great deal on a great game
Someone Still Uses POP? (Monday, August 25, 2003)
Retro mail protocol still has fans. Who knew?
OpenOffice for OS X Delayed (Friday, August 22, 2003)
Wait for it...
Palm Ships New Tungsten T2 (Wednesday, July 23, 2003)
If at first you don't succeed
Sony Does It Again (Monday, July 21, 2003)
Sony takes PalmOS up a notch
XM's Silent Success (Thursday, July 10, 2003)
Where's the buzz about XM?
Cutting Digicams Down to Size (Monday, June 30, 2003)
When it comes to digital cameras, you can never be too thin
Content Syndication: Keeping An Eye On the Ball (Sunday, June 29, 2003)
RSS and RDF and Echo, oh my
Go Get NewsDesk 1.1 (Tuesday, June 24, 2003)
The best RSS reader gets better
What Apple Didn't Say (Tuesday, June 24, 2003)
When is Java not Java? When it's JBoss
Microsoft and the Magic Coffee Machine (Monday, June 23, 2003)
Software, coffee, and convicted monopolists
Handspring Unwraps Treo 600 (Wednesday, June 18, 2003)
Handspring's last gasp
Flash for Programmers: Laszlo (Tuesday, June 17, 2003)
Laszlo saves Flash from itself
InfoWorld Runs Ads in RSS Feeds (Friday, June 13, 2003)
Polluting RSS, the InfoWorld way
All RIGHT! (Thursday, June 12, 2003)
Sid Meier returns to the briny deep
New BF1942 Mod Brings the Battlefield to Vietnam (Saturday, June 7, 2003)
The first public beta of the new Battlefield 1942 mod "Eve of Destruction", which moves the action to the jungles...
Oooh (Monday, June 2, 2003)
Archos creates another digital lust object
Desert Combat: Lost Village (Monday, May 26, 2003)
The latest update (version .35) to the outstanding Battlefield 1942 mod "Desert Combat" adds a sweetener that's practically addictive: a...
Day of Defeat Is Back, Guns Blazing! (Monday, May 12, 2003)
I've written in this space about the Half-Life mod Day of Defeat before. DoD is a mod that turns Half-Life...
"TiVo for Radio" (Monday, May 5, 2003)
Another new entry from the nifty gadgets front: a company called PoGo! Products has announced Radio YourWay, a tiny device...
XM Hits the Desktop (Saturday, May 3, 2003)
Oh, man, this is too cool... Anyone who has worked with me knows how much I like to listen to...
Watchfire Flips the Bird (Monday, April 28, 2003)
Here's another example for the continuing saga of companies using EULAs to give their customers the shaft: Watchfire, the company...
Palm Launches Tungsten C Handheld (Wednesday, April 23, 2003)
After many, many years of stagnation, it looks like Palm, Inc. is finally innovating again -- they've just announced their...
Return of the RAM Drive? (Tuesday, April 15, 2003)
Anil Dash has an interesting suggestion for how to improve perceived speed on your PC: cache critical data (bookmarks, My...
Write Once, Run Anywhere (Really!) (Friday, April 4, 2003)
Looks like Diego Doval is proving that the original promise of Java isn't dead after all: his nifty Java app...
Cheap TiVo for PC and Handheld (Monday, March 31, 2003)
SnapStream offers software that lets you turn your PC (and -- intriguingly -- your Pocket PC) into a TiVo for...
Movable Type Plugin Directory (Monday, March 3, 2003)
All you Movable Type users out there should check this out: there's finally a MT Plugin Directory, pulling together all...
Lindows Goes Portable (Thursday, February 20, 2003)
Well, well, well -- after making a splashy entry into the Media Center PC market, Lindows is now going after...
Small is Beautiful (Wednesday, January 29, 2003)
Now, this is interesting. For as long as anyone can remember, the trend with computers has been to get faster...
Don Park: "Sash is Trash" (Thursday, January 2, 2003)
So Don Park is saying on his blog that IBM's Sash technology is, well, trash -- too hard to install,...
XUL Help? (Monday, November 25, 2002)
If anybody out there has experience using the Mozilla front-end language, XUL, and its support for localization, I'd love to...
K-Meleon is Back (Tuesday, November 12, 2002)
This is good news -- after a long dormancy, the K-Meleon project is finally back up and running. K-Meleon takes...
From Out of the Mists... (Thursday, October 31, 2002)
Over at the Open Source Application Foundation, Andy Hertzfeld (the brilliant designer behind the original Macintosh and the "Nautilus" GUI...
Call For Help (Wednesday, October 30, 2002)
If anyone out there has any experience with the open-source Mambo Site Server, I'd love to hear from you --...
Ooh, Shiny (Monday, October 14, 2002)
Creative Labs has just rolled out what looks like the first real competition for Apple's iPod -- the NOMAD Jukebox...
Mozilla Slims Down (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)
If you're a Windows user who's been intrigued by Mozilla's power and standards-compliance, but you've been turned off by its...
Day of Defeat 3.1 Out (Tuesday, August 13, 2002)
The World War II attack is back, in full force, with the release of Day of Defeat version 3.1. The...
Thumbs Up For Mozilla 1.0 (Tuesday, June 18, 2002)
So the Mozilla Organization, the open-source project launched by Netscape in 1998 when they released the source code of their...
Apple Moves Upscale (Tuesday, May 14, 2002)
It's been a long, hard road back to relevance for Apple Computer, but they seem to have made it through....
The Ultimate Palmtop (Wednesday, March 27, 2002)
Sony's "Clie" line of PalmOS-based organizers have been the standard by which others are measured in terms of style and...
Blogging Goes Corporate -- For Free (Monday, March 18, 2002)
There's already a jillion and one blogging tools out there, I know. But here's some news about one that's an...
All SOAPed up (Wednesday, January 23, 2002)
Haven't got SOAP quite working under PHP yet -- but I'm making progress...
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